Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-05
THE CONTEST.
The Taking of Testimony
Continued.
SOME MORE OF DUNsMOOR.

He Certainly Strengthens tn,
Cause of Mr.. Lynch.
| Other Witnesses.
The taking of testimony in the Con
gressional contest was resumed before
Notary Owens at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning. General Vandever was absent
but the. attorneys as mentioned yesterday
were on hand. Republican County
Clerk Dunsmoor was put upon the stand
and was cross-examined by Vandever's
attorneys. The cross.examinatlon failed
to shake his testimony in the least.
After this he was subjected to a re.
direct examination in which he
stated that had the Deputy
Assessors been Republicans he would
most assuredly have told them that
the lists of enrolled names they
brought in could not be legally regis.
tered, and would have advised tn e
Deputy Assessors to file their oaths and
re-register the names. As they were
Democratic officials he let them go on,
knowing that the lists of men brought in
would not be allowed to vote.
The HERALD is desirous of publ hing
the testimony of Mr.. Dunsmoor as full
as possible, and to-day first prints his
testimony at the afternoon session of
Thursday and follows it up by his re-
direct examination of yesterday. The
other witnesses testify to the fact of a
great number of Democratic votes being
shat out at the "White House" by the
gerrymanderipg of the Board of super
visors, and to other important facts.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
@. When did you receive from the
printer the last supplemental list?
A. l think about the S0th. Let us
look at this one minute (witness referring
to Great Register).
@, That is certified by you on the
2Sth, l think?
A. Well, let's see; this is on the Goth
day of October. Well, that does not
contain all the supplements, because
there are some that run down as late as
the 30th.
Q. Yes, sir, three supplements to the
City Register?
A. Yes, sir.
@. This, that you have in your hand
there, and certified by you, is of date
the 3Oth of October?
A. This is the Goth of October.
Q. Twentieth?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. When were they distributed
through the country!
A. The Registers were sent out, l
think on the Goth.
Mr.. Campbell. Now you have got
down there about the first and last sup
plement; it don't appear what they are;
there isn't anything to indicate anything,
in fact.
MIR. Robarts. l am referring to the
portion of the Great Register which was
certified to by Mr.. Dunsmoor on the Goth
of October. 1t bears his certificate Of
date the Goth of October. ITO the wit
nes:) Does it not?
A. Yes, sir.
@. | ask you now when that was dis
tributed to the different Boards of Elec-
ton?
A. They were sent by Wells-Fargo
on the Goth and 9th.
@. But none prior to the Goth ?
A. don't think so.
q. Now then, when was the supple.
ment, supplemental Register succeeding
this main Register you have spoken of,
that is of the goth of October, when were
they sent to the different Boards of Elec.
ton throughout the county?
Mr.. Campbell. The first supplement
you are speaking of, now?
Mr.. Robarts. Yes, sir.
A. | think the supplements were all
after that. My recollection is that they
were sent either the 30th or 3lst.
@. Then portion of the Register
was distributed to the various precincts
throughout the county prior to the sup
plement?
A. Well, they were sent to the vari.
Gus precincts, yes, sir.
Q. Prior to the supplement, or we're
they all sent together?
A. Could not have all been sent to.
gether. In some instances think they
were all sent together. For instance,
in the city 1 think they were all dis
tributed together, because they were sent
out; they were delivered along on Satur-
doy, and some on Monday, different pre-
cincts, and l think in this one instance that
supplements, as stated by Mr.. Lynch
Eighth Precinct), were not down there
until Mr.. A. N. Hamilton took them
down there. We had supposed that
each package in the ten precincts con-
tanned all the supplements, but it seems
to me that about s o'clock, when he got
there to the precinct he claimed that
the supplements were not there. He
got team and came right back and got
it--so he says.
@. BY Mr.. Campbell. You say it was
supposed that all the supplements were
sent?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. By Mr.. Robarts. In the city?
A. instructed the deputies to tie up
the requisite number of Great Registers,
poll.lists and tally.lists, which are re-
quired by the Statute, and to deliver
them to the proper persons in the pre-
cinct; and some of them turned over
myself, that is, to parties that came af-
ter that.
@. I do not doubt that at all. What
am trying to get at, and have not got
an answer yet, Mr.. Dunsmoor-you may
not have understood me-was this.
Was this book of registration
certified on the Goth of October, 1856,
delivered to the Boards of Election
throughout the county simultaneously
with the supplement? Were they all
sent together to the different precincts
or was one portion sent before and the
other subsequently?
A. Well, in some instances one por.
ton was sent before, because / kno "
that at Santa Ana l sent down to Mr..
Freeman for him to hold the first lot that
had sent until he received The supple
ments. SO as to save two trips; and then
he procured team and delivered them
to the diffarapt nrecin nfs there